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Hoher Kasten
- Easiest route
- 0.9 km+111 m · about 0.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 253 m831 ft
- Isolation
- 3.6 km
- Tonight
- -4°CSnow · Wind 18 km/h SW
Hoher Kasten is a 1,794 m (5,886 ft) mountain in the Appenzell Alps, Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,794 m · 5,886 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Staubernkanzel (1,860 m)
- Range
- Appenzell Alps
- Region
- Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 47.2835° N, 9.4854° E
How to get to the top of Hoher Kasten
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.7 km NNE of Hoher Kasten
- Distance
- 0.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +111 m−31 m (364 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Hoher Kasten 3D map
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Hoher Kasten terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Hoher Kasten weather
Tonight · Snow · -4°C (25°F) · 1.2 mm · Wind 18 km/h SW
Hoher Kasten forecast for the summit, about 1,794 m.
- Tonight-4°1.2 mm18 km/h SW
- Today-4°1°5.1 mm22 km/h S
- Sun-2°7°13.1 mm27 km/h NW
- Mon-3°5°–8 km/h SW
- Tue1°13°–5 km/h SW
- Wed1°4°3.2 mm7 km/h N
- Thu-3°5°–7 km/h NE
- Fri-5°4°–8 km/h N
- Sat-6°3°0.7 mm6 km/h N
- Sun-2°2°7.5 mm7 km/h S
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Hoher Kasten
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Hoher Kasten, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Alp Rohr
Nearest parking
Britschli
Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Am Brüelbach
Nearest campsite
Witzy-Camp
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Alp RohrHut | 0.9 km S |
| BritschliParking | 1.4 km SE |
| Parking | 1.7 km WNW |
| Parking | 2.0 km E |
| Berggasthaus PlattenbödeliHut | 2.4 km WSW |
| Stellplatz Am BrüelbachCaravan site | 2.8 km WNW |
| Diepoldsauer SchwammHut | 3.1 km NNE |
| Witzy-CampCampsite | 3.9 km ESE |
| Waldcamping FeldkirchCampsite | 7.9 km ESE |
How steep is the route to Hoher Kasten?
The easiest mapped route, 0.9 km from 1,697 m to 1,794 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.
- 0–15°0.7 km
- 15–30°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 10 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Hoher Kasten summit.
Summit list 5
- 1Kamor1,751 m 0.7 km N
- 2Glogger1,682 m 1.5 km SW
- 3Rot Spitz1,142 m 2.2 km S
- 4Wiss Spitz1,119 m 2.2 km S
- 5Bergli486 m 2.7 km SE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 288 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- European Globeflower13
- Early Purple Orchid13
- Perennial Cornflower12
- Spring gentian11
- Yellow-billed Chough10
- Bear's Ear10
Where Hoher Kasten sits
- Range
- Alps751Western Alps353Northwestern Alps309Swiss Prealps46Appenzell Alps6
- Region
- Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden4Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
SeealpseeLake · 1,143 m↑6.7 km WSW
SäntisPeak · 2,501 m↑11 km WSW
Drei SchwesternPeak · 2,053 m↑14 km SSE
GalinakopfPeak · 2,198 m↑18 km SE
AlvierPeak · 2,343 m↑20 km SSW
More in the Appenzell Alps 2
Hoher Kasten downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
13 m low This 3D map reads 1,781 m at the summit; the official height is 1,794 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,794 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,781 m | -13 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,766 m | -28 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-24)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia